Here is the link to the teleconverter I used amzn.to/3ITxrBw there are of course better ones available but of course the cost rises significantly. Good Luck. BB
Good Morning from the UK. Great video and thanks for sharing. I too shoot with the Tamron 150-600mm and up until this morning I hadn't really thought about using a teleconverter but thanks to your video I am definitely going to look into this further. Adam
Hi MYbackyardbirding.. I want to find out what other teleconveters would fit on the G1 Tameron 150-600mm. I have the same lens (In Nikon F Mount) and i am trying to use it for Astrophotography. 600mm is not enough of a reach. Your video is the only one that demonstrates the G1 150-600mm with a teleconverter. Was wondering if you know another other brands that fit. I have the nikon 2X teleconverter and it doesn't fit. thank you!
Thank you for posting this video, you just answered a lot of questions for me! I have an A011 Tamron 150 to 600 mm zoom lens with a t6i, and I was wondering about a 2x converter. For me it would be worth getting a 2x converter, basically I would be doing this with it. I can manually focus. If I want to take pictures of hawks or eagles in flight, I'll just take the 2x converter off. I already have an effective 960 mm at 600 mm with the crop sensor. I just want the 2x for a little extra reach when I'm shooting elk and such. I think it will work out just fine!
Yes, you'll get good results with video and I would suggest getting the best 2x you can. Tamron makes a 2x for the 150-600 but its a bit hard to find and pricey there are a number of options out there. BB
Do you know if you add a 1.4x instead will the f/6.3 at 600mm become an f/8 or will it go above f/8? Tnx for the wonderful work. Tnx for sharing this wonderful work.
Hello friend! I'm Julian , I'm looking for the best lens for my Canon 6dmk2 what I like to do is the birding , but here in Colombia the birds always are so far from me , and I need to catch them far , but I don't know how far can I catch the bird with this lens ? 20 mts ,30,40? Please help me !
Hi, I have this lens and extender with a Canon 7D MII. I receive a Communication Err01 error. Any idea whether this is something that can be fixed or does it simply mean that this setup is not compatible?
I'm thinking of getting this lens for my GH5. 2x crop factor pushes 600mm to 1200mm and the 0.71 Metabones adapter will turn f6.3 to f4.5. And while recording 1080p, there's a crop x2.(?) that will push video past 2400+mm. Oh, and with in body stabilization and lens stabilization... I wont need a tripod for pictures... What cameras can do these days that Iphone X cant do... lol
Fascinating to see this. I phoned my camera shop the other day to ask about putting a 2 x converter between my D500 and 200-500 f5.6... , they said it wouldn't work. I imagine they just meant autofocus ? Saying it wouldn't focus below f8. I'm still tempted to get one....The 1.4 tc works very well, even hand held.
yes it is actually f/12.6 which requires good light to get the ISO down. the focal length is correct on the crop sensor but it is not real. The field of view gives the appearance of that focal length on a crop sensor but the focal length is still only 1200mm.
Hi there. great video. i have the tamron 150-600 for canon. can you recommend a teleconverter or something similar to extend the focal length? it doesn't have to be infinitely expensive either 😋
you might be right, it is not 600mm f4 but still Sigma150-600mm is much sharper at 600mm wide open. www.flickr.com/photos/133606804@N04/31494755891/in/dateposted-public/
nice video, can you explain cropping? because basically its like smaller rectangle in the middle of full frame so if you crop with full frame camera it would be same as if you crop with Photoshop latter ? or it is better quality then yo do that with camera ?
Thanks, cropping just means cutting a piece out of an original image - this camera is not full frame - but because full frames have higher resolution you can have a pretty good zoom-in effect by cropping the image later. My point in mentioning was just to note that these photos were not cropped or altered so you're seeing reality.
It has nothing to what you'v said before I'm sorry if you misunderstood me. Basically I'm just looking for info what is the difference if you crop with full frame or you make full picture with full frame and later crop with Photoshop. if you have camera 24 megapixels 6000-4000 and you crop with camera, cropped picture will have less pixels or same ? because obviously cropping with Photoshop you loosing image size in pixels. and what about quality by doing it with camera you have better then with Photoshop by doing same cropping ?
It wont work with the teleconverter installed, but without it if it is too dark you wont get auto focus outside of the f-stop range of the lens - you can use manual focus, but again if it is pretty dark it will be grainy at high ISO's.
I almost had a heart attack when I saw your tripod oriented backwards. You should have the single leg extending forward, under the lens, with the other two coming back towards you. That's a lot of money to take a nose dive.
I was gonna say the exact same thing seeing his tripod set up like this. Also I've actually see someone's lens topple over on it's front element, having his backwards tripod like this, there was a big scratch on the glass. That silly git also didn't have his lenshood on for some odd reason :o This stuff is scary as heck to see, even if it's not your gea...
Bullshit. The center weight are on lens, not camera itself. I have heard many people made mistakes like that, mount camera with 400MM lens! Also, yes, if camera and lens are too heavy for tripod then it is bad.
Michael Marr, that's the point. That long single leg should be pointing outwards at the front, since it's capacity is much higher than the other two legs. It prevents the camera from tilting over...
Very good presentation but you do not need this equipment to photograph your assistant the pretty little curious squirrel. What a marvel, be well and may God bless you.
all those birds at your backyard! man oh man, you must be lucky. all I have are pigeons and sparrows all days long, if I drive away from home for 20 minutes or so by car I might be lucky to catch a heron or an egret
this is very helpful for this review. I've been thinking on getting better cameras and this may just be the break through I need to get the right cameras for the job. thanks very much :)
If you're going to do a lot of wildlife filming I would recommend the Canon SX60 HS for starters much lighter and easier to deal with - here is a short review: th-cam.com/video/wyekpC3CV_E/w-d-xo.html
Tele's cannot use autofocus with lenses that have higher f stops. Why the Tam 150-600mm is not the lens of choice for extending. Additionally, you are limited by your camera body. The Canon 1D X and 5D III can both auto-focus at f/8... but that's it. No other Canon camera can do this. The Tam is already fairly soft anyways. You would be better off using a fast prime lens with that tele. If you purchased a 300mm f2.8 lens, the AF would work. Much better to have a 960mm set up with AF than 1900 without, imo. Finally, not every tele is a good fit for every lens. My 300mm f2.8 AF's with both my 1.4x and my 2X, but no matter what I do, the 2X is soft, while the 1.4X is very sharp.
I have a 150-600 g2 and it is decidedly not soft. I've had a 300 2.8 v 1 and 500 f/4.5 (no IS)in the past, and the Tammy compares favorably. But. no AF with extenders. I again got acceptably sharp images this morning of the ~95% waning moon with a Canon 2x III between the Tammy and my 5D IV (MF only of course).... my guess is, cropping the lens only shots will result in similar sharpness and resolution. I'm considering buying a 500 f/4 II, as I'm watching one on ebay. With CC points and ebay bucks. I could get it for close to 6k..a lot better than 10,499 when the lens was introduced!
It is a crop sensor so multiply by 1.6 that's 960mm then by 2. Full frame DSLR's are generally much more expensive than high-end crop sensor cameras of the same make.
E' una porcheria.... perdi un sacco di sto di luce.. la messa a fuoco automatica... con quella manuale si fatica molto... perde molto in nitidezza.Soldi buttati.
1920mm? Rubbish. The 600mm lens with 2x converter is 1200mm. This is the same whether on a full-frame, or cropped sensor. If you take a photograph of an object at a given distance, the image of that object will be exactly the same size no matter what size sensor you use. Only the surrounding area will be altered, because of the cropping due to a smaller sensor size. If you use a full-size sensor, you can get exactly the same effect as the cropped sensor by cropping in Photoshop!! Don't use bad science!!!!
Maybe you need to go back to photography school - in the era of Google search we shouldn't be having this conversation: digital-photography-school.com/understand-differences-full-frame-versus-crop-sensor-cameras/ www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2473521
Correct, focal length is still 1200mm. But because its a crop sensor its 1920mm "Equivalent" Just like the p900 is only a 357mm lens but its marketed as a 2000mm EQ camera.
MyBackyardBirding 😂 Good and smart way of closing somebody’s mouth! I like your methods friend!!! That was an awesome and very informative video. Thanks again for it!
Don't frustrate yourself....photo geeks just can't grasp the concept of equivalence.....rule of thirds and addiction to autofocus and image stabilization...they are lost in this shit....it's kinda sad.....so don't worry he didn't really go to photo school....he's repeating everything he's heard without understanding what it meant....you are right crop factor does not make it bigger or closer....it's just the perception of bigger or closer or as they say "equivalency".
I love all that wildlife in your backyard man!
Congratulations!!! Thanks for the video!
Could you post a ink to the teleconverter?
Here is the link to the teleconverter I used amzn.to/3ITxrBw there are of course better ones available but of course the cost rises significantly. Good Luck. BB
Is that the G1 or G2 Tamron lens?
Does autofocus work? How it is possible? As I saw pictures of this teleconverter, it has no contacts. Or has it contacts?
Good Morning from the UK.
Great video and thanks for sharing. I too shoot with the Tamron 150-600mm and up until this morning I hadn't really thought about using a teleconverter but thanks to your video I am definitely going to look into this further.
Adam
+The Disabled Photographer thanks Adam, I wouldn't necessarily recommend the vivitar 2x but there should be a number of choices around 2-300 US.
Hi MYbackyardbirding..
I want to find out what other teleconveters would fit on the G1 Tameron 150-600mm. I have the same lens (In Nikon F Mount) and i am trying to use it for Astrophotography. 600mm is not enough of a reach. Your video is the only one that demonstrates the G1 150-600mm with a teleconverter. Was wondering if you know another other brands that fit.
I have the nikon 2X teleconverter and it doesn't fit.
thank you!
Thank you for posting this video, you just answered a lot of questions for me! I have an A011 Tamron 150 to 600 mm zoom lens with a t6i, and I was wondering about a 2x converter. For me it would be worth getting a 2x converter, basically I would be doing this with it. I can manually focus. If I want to take pictures of hawks or eagles in flight, I'll just take the 2x converter off. I already have an effective 960 mm at 600 mm with the crop sensor. I just want the 2x for a little extra reach when I'm shooting elk and such. I think it will work out just fine!
Yes, you'll get good results with video and I would suggest getting the best 2x you can. Tamron makes a 2x for the 150-600 but its a bit hard to find and pricey there are a number of options out there. BB
Do you know if you add a 1.4x instead will the f/6.3 at 600mm become an f/8 or will it go above f/8? Tnx for the wonderful work. Tnx for sharing this wonderful work.
Hi, I would like to know if it’s sharp that allows me to get a high resolution print if I use it with T7i ? Thank you
Its not going to be sharp with the 2x teleconverter attached but the Tamron 150-600 is a great lens. Overall still best for video. BB
How it is without x2
The Painted Bunting pictures are awesome.
Hello friend! I'm Julian , I'm looking for the best lens for my Canon 6dmk2 what I like to do is the birding , but here in Colombia the birds always are so far from me , and I need to catch them far , but I don't know how far can I catch the bird with this lens ? 20 mts ,30,40? Please help me !
I've been considering this lens so thanks for the review.
Merry christmas thanks so much for all the info
Same to you! BB
Hi, I have this lens and extender with a Canon 7D MII. I receive a Communication Err01 error. Any idea whether this is something that can be fixed or does it simply mean that this setup is not compatible?
I'm thinking of getting this lens for my GH5. 2x crop factor pushes 600mm to 1200mm and the 0.71 Metabones adapter will turn f6.3 to f4.5. And while recording 1080p, there's a crop x2.(?) that will push video past 2400+mm. Oh, and with in body stabilization and lens stabilization... I wont need a tripod for pictures... What cameras can do these days that Iphone X cant do... lol
Fascinating to see this. I phoned my camera shop the other day to ask about putting a 2 x converter between my D500 and 200-500 f5.6... , they said it wouldn't work. I imagine they just meant autofocus ? Saying it wouldn't focus below f8. I'm still tempted to get one....The 1.4 tc works very well, even hand held.
Does autofocus work with photos? How fast is autofocus?
Really dont know what to make of this lens.....but each review helps....good review, thanks👍
whats your experience after using 2x teleconvertor ? is it affect much in quality??
Aperture f6.3 with 1920mm is impossible. Mustn´t that be about 12 or in that region ?
I think the exif f data needs to be doubled
yes it is actually f/12.6 which requires good light to get the ISO down. the focal length is correct on the crop sensor but it is not real. The field of view gives the appearance of that focal length on a crop sensor but the focal length is still only 1200mm.
It's NOT 1920mm, it's 1200mm on a cropped sensor!!!!
Richard Knisely-Marpole 600×1.6 crop factor = 960 add 2x tc = 1920..
@@nickpatel1983 glad somebody got it right !
Hi there. great video. i have the tamron 150-600 for canon. can you recommend a teleconverter or something similar to extend the focal length? it doesn't have to be infinitely expensive either 😋
Great video, you know they are coming out with a 150-600mm mkII. That setup does a great job for the money.
Thanks, yes the next generation is out I think, this one people should be able to get real cheap leading up to Christmas.
BB
@@MyBackyardBirding Yes, I've had the G2 for over two years now. Superb lens!
What feed are you using to attract all those painted buntings? I have one that comes once in a while...
Thanks for your review
1920mm ?.... So you're adding lens plus 2x converter plus crop factor ???
Very nice....straight forward.....thanks !
Great video ,what part of the world can i see these type of birds , fantastic
Wonderful footage! Great review of this camera!
Thanks!
hi, there, is it autofocusing? I had my canon T6 sigma 400mm with sigma converter, but it does not autofocus at all.
No autofocus won't work with teleconverter.
Thanks! Now I'm saving for a lens with longer focal length instead :)
I can see clearly increased noise, and that might be with high ISO values.
Thank you for the review. The lens is soft to very soft. You see it too, right?
Lighting was pretty bad, sharper with better light but its never going to be tack sharp. Great for video though.
you might be right, it is not 600mm f4 but still Sigma150-600mm is much sharper at 600mm wide open.
www.flickr.com/photos/133606804@N04/31494755891/in/dateposted-public/
What kind of tripod do you use?
nice video, can you explain cropping? because basically its like smaller rectangle in the middle of full frame so if you crop with full frame camera it would be same as if you crop with Photoshop latter ? or it is better quality then yo do that with camera ?
Thanks, cropping just means cutting a piece out of an original image - this camera is not full frame - but because full frames have higher resolution you can have a pretty good zoom-in effect by cropping the image later. My point in mentioning was just to note that these photos were not cropped or altered so you're seeing reality.
It has nothing to what you'v said before I'm sorry if you misunderstood me. Basically I'm just looking for info what is the difference if you crop with full frame or you make full picture with full frame and later crop with Photoshop.
if you have camera 24 megapixels 6000-4000 and you crop with camera, cropped picture will have less pixels or same ? because obviously cropping with Photoshop you loosing image size in pixels.
and what about quality by doing it with camera you have better then with Photoshop by doing same cropping ?
Thank you for the video.
Is the picture quality from that gear (DSLR + Tamron + teleconverter) significantly better than from SX60?
Колдовской Заяц yes tiny sensor vs aps-c
Does this extender works with Tamron 70-200 mm VC lenses? Thanks a lot!
This one was for Canon EF lenses you would have to make sure it matched your camera lenses.
how does autofocus work in low light situations?
It wont work with the teleconverter installed, but without it if it is too dark you wont get auto focus outside of the f-stop range of the lens - you can use manual focus, but again if it is pretty dark it will be grainy at high ISO's.
Awesome!
Thanks very much for a great Real World review.
Not bad at all with this combination, consider it to be so much cheaper as compared to getting a few thousand dollars lens.
I almost had a heart attack when I saw your tripod oriented backwards. You should have the single leg extending forward, under the lens, with the other two coming back towards you. That's a lot of money to take a nose dive.
I was gonna say the exact same thing seeing his tripod set up like this. Also I've actually see someone's lens topple over on it's front element, having his backwards tripod like this, there was a big scratch on the glass. That silly git also didn't have his lenshood on for some odd reason :o
This stuff is scary as heck to see, even if it's not your gea...
Bullshit. The center weight are on lens, not camera itself. I have heard many people made mistakes like that, mount camera with 400MM lens! Also, yes, if camera and lens are too heavy for tripod then it is bad.
Really need a sturdier tripod that the one being used.
Michael Marr, that's the point. That long single leg should be pointing outwards at the front, since it's capacity is much higher than the other two legs. It prevents the camera from tilting over...
It’s just that he doesn’t know how to use a tripod so he shouldn’t even have one
Nice review. Ty
Very good presentation but you do not need this equipment to photograph your assistant the pretty little curious squirrel. What a marvel, be well and may God bless you.
all those birds at your backyard! man oh man, you must be lucky. all I have are pigeons and sparrows all days long, if I drive away from home for 20 minutes or so by car I might be lucky to catch a heron or an egret
Pigeons? Sparrows?
Well damn, i only got 1 type of B E R D, and it's a small one too
But i mainly shoot studio tho
such cool pics .awsome.Many thanks from me to you.
Thanks
Thanks. Love those squirrels
this is very helpful for this review. I've been thinking on getting better cameras and this may just be the break through I need to get the right cameras for the job. thanks very much :)
If you're going to do a lot of wildlife filming I would recommend the Canon SX60 HS for starters much lighter and easier to deal with - here is a short review:
th-cam.com/video/wyekpC3CV_E/w-d-xo.html
You mean 1200mm?
Fantastic I got the same lens. Thanks
Good Video, practital an with good ideas of a practical User, Thank you!
Tele's cannot use autofocus with lenses that have higher f stops. Why the Tam 150-600mm is not the lens of choice for extending. Additionally, you are limited by your camera body. The Canon 1D X and 5D III can both auto-focus at f/8... but that's it. No other Canon camera can do this. The Tam is already fairly soft anyways. You would be better off using a fast prime lens with that tele. If you purchased a 300mm f2.8 lens, the AF would work. Much better to have a 960mm set up with AF than 1900 without, imo. Finally, not every tele is a good fit for every lens. My 300mm f2.8 AF's with both my 1.4x and my 2X, but no matter what I do, the 2X is soft, while the 1.4X is very sharp.
All too heavy to carry around all day anyway.
200-500 x2 converter with Nikon D500 is an option too.. as the D500 has AF above f8 too
I have a 150-600 g2 and it is decidedly not soft. I've had a 300 2.8 v 1 and 500 f/4.5 (no IS)in the past, and the Tammy compares favorably. But. no AF with extenders. I again got acceptably sharp images this morning of the ~95% waning moon with a Canon 2x III between the Tammy and my 5D IV (MF only of course).... my guess is, cropping the lens only shots will result in similar sharpness and resolution. I'm considering buying a 500 f/4 II, as I'm watching one on ebay. With CC points and ebay bucks. I could get it for close to 6k..a lot better than 10,499 when the lens was introduced!
Since when 600*2=1920?
Marco Cardin your comment has been 1 year ago. Most probably you already know why 1920. 😉✌🏻
At 600mm still F2.8🤔
With that teleconverter installed, there's no way the aperture was f6.3!!! The 2 stops of light loss would have brought your f6.3 down to f13!!!
Thanks a Million!
600mm with a x2 teleconverter is not even close to 2000mm. Unless you are using a crop sensor as well and adding another multiplier of 1.5 or 1.6.
It is a crop sensor so multiply by 1.6 that's 960mm then by 2. Full frame DSLR's are generally much more expensive than high-end crop sensor cameras of the same make.
Why 1920 mm? Should be 1200
Very nice, and I wish we had painted buntings here in Ohio.
Straight forward....like it....blows away the crybabies who have crabbed about this lens....who blamed it for their mistakes !!!
1920mm ? 600+600 = 1200
Watching this video, I think, my Leica 2.8/400 + 1,4x +2x TC and 5x crop = 5600mm ! has better IQ than the Tamron at 1920mm.
Gee I hope so - what is that like 5-6 thousand bucks used?
what a body you have ?
vivita was made by samyang
good
E' una porcheria.... perdi un sacco di sto di luce.. la messa a fuoco automatica... con quella manuale si fatica molto... perde molto in nitidezza.Soldi buttati.
600x2=1920? wtf
600x1.6x2=1920 on a crop sensor camera.
Degradation of the visionary? LOL
This lense is pure shit.. soft imagesat 400-600mm. dont buy this piece of crap..
Terrible image quality.
Oh really ????
1920mm? Rubbish. The 600mm lens with 2x converter is 1200mm. This is the same whether on a full-frame, or cropped sensor. If you take a photograph of an object at a given distance, the image of that object will be exactly the same size no matter what size sensor you use. Only the surrounding area will be altered, because of the cropping due to a smaller sensor size. If you use a full-size sensor, you can get exactly the same effect as the cropped sensor by cropping in Photoshop!! Don't use bad science!!!!
Maybe you need to go back to photography school - in the era of Google search we shouldn't be having this conversation:
digital-photography-school.com/understand-differences-full-frame-versus-crop-sensor-cameras/
www.dpreview.com/forums/thread/2473521
Correct, focal length is still 1200mm. But because its a crop sensor its 1920mm "Equivalent" Just like the p900 is only a 357mm lens but its marketed as a 2000mm EQ camera.
MyBackyardBirding
😂 Good and smart way of closing somebody’s mouth!
I like your methods friend!!! That was an awesome and very informative video.
Thanks again for it!
Don't frustrate yourself....photo geeks just can't grasp the concept of equivalence.....rule of thirds and addiction to autofocus and image stabilization...they are lost in this shit....it's kinda sad.....so don't worry he didn't really go to photo school....he's repeating everything he's heard without understanding what it meant....you are right crop factor does not make it bigger or closer....it's just the perception of bigger or closer or as they say "equivalency".
And oh yes...this guy who told you to go back to school can't even use a tripod correctly !!!!!
Model of teleconverter please
Vivitar af?
NO AF doesn't work properly with the adapter. BB